WILLEMSTAD — During the legal proceedings instituted by Nelson Ramiz/DAE against Insel Air-director Eduard Heerenveen and his airline company, Heerenveen had not been able to base any of the challenged remarks toward DAE and Ramiz on established facts.

Minister Carlos Monk (Administration, Planning and Service, PS) has violated the precision principle by not hearing Harold Daal, head of the Public Affairs Department with his decision to appoint him program manager of the project Basic Registration.

PHILIPSBURG--Country St. Maarten was not a good employer when it dismissed Finance Department former head Bas Roorda shortly after he reported alleged criminal activities within government, the Judge of the Court of First Instance ruled Monday.

NEW YORK - Lehman Brothers Holdings Corp, now just the odds and ends of the global financial behemoth that collapsed in September 2008, received court approval on Tuesday to exit bankruptcy early next year.

PHILIPSBURG--Simpson Bay Resort and Marina (SBRM, former Pelican Resort) and Workers Institute for Organised Labour (WIFOL) met in court once again on Tuesday afternoon, this time during the resort's appeal against Friday's ruling by the Court of First Instance that barred the resort from implementing two verdicts of the Court of Appeals.

PHILIPSBURG - Attorney at law Jairo Bloem has lost the injunction he filed against Today newspaper because he believed his honour and good reputation had been tarnished in two articles that were published on the Bobby Velasquez rape case.

PHILIPSBURG--"Fantastic" and "courageous" said attorney at law Maarten Le Poole after it became known the judge of the Court of First Instance had suspended implementation of an Appeals Court ruling that could have had dramatic consequences for almost 200 workers of Simpson Bay Resort (former Pelican Resort Club).

PHILIPSBURG--While repairing what Workers Institute for Organised Labour (WIFOL) lawyers had called a "judicial error," the Appeals Court issued a new ruling on Monday in which it once again declared null and void the Simpson Bay Resort (former Pelican Resort Club) workers' victory of February 8 over Simpson Bay Resort Management Company BV (SBRMC) and Royal Resorts Management Company Ltd.

THE HAGUE — The governments of Curaçao, St. Maarten, Aruba and the BES-Islands are allowed to charge for issuing a sedula despite a judgment from the Supreme Court that Dutch municipalities may not charge people for the Dutch ID-card.